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Thank you for comments. I cant see any symptoms in the body. Maybe the eyes are little reddish. Yesterday this fish got quite active and was swimming in vertical position. He needed to move his body a lot to keep going. Today he has been laying in the bottom on his side moving the tail...

Platies seem to get this "disease" one at a time. This is at least the third in a row. They get weak, stay in the bottom, sometimes try to move or swim up. Looks like they have a cramp in a body and swim with only a part of the body. They may last few weeks before I found them dead. I had maybe...

Hi, I have one female platy carrying a ball of something weird white stuff near its anal. What could it be?

She is yellow. But I have a cat. I'll give that fish to her.

Has anyone else had evil fish among the others? I had one platy that kept the rest hiding all the time behind the termometer or somewhere. I gave her to a friend to keep with tigerbarbs, but she bites them too, when it is feedingtime. Tigerbarbs have passed :( . Now my friend is still trying to...

Hi, I would like to add plants into my tank. It is 30 g tall Sea clear Aqrylic tank. Then I have there Emperor 280 hanging in the back. No hood nor lights yet. I was thinking to get All-Glass Full hood which has one 18 " bulb, but does that sit well on round corners? Or can one bulb make enough...

I'm getting a hood and lighting into the tank. I have 30 g tall Sea clear Aqrylic tank. Then I have there Emperor 280 hanging in the back. So Eclipse hood with lighting and bio-wheel would be perfect, but I have already this Emperor. I should had bought that Eclipse instead of Emperor a long...

Hi, It smells like pee. This morning the water is cloudy. It was not cloudy yet yesterday. I don't think the tank has smelled ever before. I got it for Christmas. It is 30 gallons, has Emperor 280 and there is nine platties. The fish are active now. Waterparameters are fine and normal. Maybe I...

Hi, I have smell problem in my tank. My family took care of the fish while I was gone for ONE night. When I came home I thought that the dog has peed in the carpet. Well, I vacuumed leftover food from the bottom making about 20% water change. The smell has not gone yet. How should I do this...

Thanks for all the good advice. I put some snails in the betta tank, where is no bettas. (They did not survive, too cold in the winter). I'll give them some food and see what happens.

The snail population in the fish tank has increased. I do not want them there any more, if they multiply with this speed. My daughter wants to keep them. Will they survive in a 2 gallon betta tank, where is no filter nor heater. In what conditions? Thanks.

I have one Platy with red eyes. Is that common? She is the bully.

The biggest one of them, which is female, harasses all the rest. She is a very energetic pig, who does not let any other fish to eat. I have six of them total. Two male, four female. I have never seen any other fish chasing another, except that one big female. The other one of the two males is...

My platties are nowadays hiding inside a plant most of the time. Should I be worried? At first they liked to swim around a lot. Now they come out only when feeding or thinking that I am gonna feed them. The plant has grown bigger now and there is more room to hide. Some of the platties have also...

This morning I found one platy dead. It was one of those I bought two days ago. I decided to do 30 % water change, allthoug all the parameters were fine. While emptying the tank I found three babies there. Maybe it was their mama that had died. Well, anyway, I have only an empty one and half...

Water does not stink. It did that for a while during the cycling. Sweet potato is half way submerged. Roots are in the water and most of the leaves in the air. It depends a bit on the water level. Nitrates were clearly above 20 ppm at one point, but now they still are at 5 ppm. I have not...

Hi, The size of the snail is about quarter of an inch. It is dark with yellowish spots. When I see it, it goes fast along the walls. Most of the time it is hidden. Could it be apple snail?

Nitrites are in zero! Gotta go to buy some fish today! Nitrates are only 5 ppm ? No need for water change. Maybe the sweet potato in the tank is eating that. It is getting so green and bushy. I have to get those last pieces of the dead shripm out of the tank somehow anyway, hmmm. This fishless...

I'm just cycling the brand new tank. Then I found a tiny snail moving along the wall! Must have come from Petsmart with the only plant that's in there. At least he is surviving the high ammonia and nitrite levels. Do I need to name him/her? Are they all beneficial to the aquarium?

pH My pH was highest in 8.4, too, when cycling th efirst week. When nitrite started to form it dropped back to 7.8-8, which is the tap water ph.

Adding oxygen does not cut CO2. What did you mean? :)

Fishless is a good idea. Chiclids are sensitive to ammonia. :P

I went to local pet store yesterday. They treat all their aquarium water with reverse osmosis. Except for chiclids and some other fish. That way it will come cheaper for them. Water is so hard in the region. Hard water puffers pH changes. They had a beatiful big angel-tank. They had signs...

I do not have hardness kit, but I read somewhere that county water is tested to have 15-25 grains, which they tell means very hard. PH right out of faucet is 7.4, but it goes to 7.8 pretty fast when standing. County gets the water from several wells in the area. The aquarium pH was over eight...

Hi, It's so illuminating to hear others have these high pHs, too. I was wondering that there is something wrong in my tank. My tap water is 7.4 right out of the faucet. After one night standing it is 7.8. Then I tested same water with same kind of rocks in it than in my tank and the ph was...